taken 8 years ago, near to Glasgow, Great Britain

Glasgow: lower part of the Necropolis

Gravestones flank each side of this path through the lower reaches of the cemetery; to the left behind camera, a path curves up the steep hillside to the higher section of the cemetery where there are hundreds – maybe a thousand – more memorials, many of them very ornate.

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NS6065 : GirlsNS6065 : InfantsThese red sandstone gateways once led into Townhead Primary School (now demolished and replaced by a council car park). The school stood on Rotten Row, just west of the former "Red Barony" Church, and the building was still there in 1964 at least.Presumably the move of people from central Glasgow to peripheral estates and new towns (aka "overspill"), plus the demolition of substandard tenements, led in turn to the closure and subsequent demolition of the Townhead School.